AMD Dual Core overclockers..

Killajaz · 24 Mar 2006 at 16:53

Simple question:
What PSU are you using to get the best out of your Dual Core opty/X2?
listing rest of spec can be handy too. I gather plenty would benefit from this information.

I still have not yet decided what PSU to get, which will allow for heavy Opty 165 overclocking in a system with several Harddrives, a high-end ATI card, optical devices and so forth.

Im stuck between the Hiper 580W, Antec TruePower 550W as I want silence.

Many many thanks, the weekend is here!

quadboi · 24 Mar 2006 at 17:07

Tagan 480w

- Pretty silent

Enermax are good though aswell (especially the Noisetaker series)

aphex · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:14

I don't think the Hiper or the Antec model you chose is made for silence. I got an Enermax Liberty 500W powering my 165, its pretty quiet, my chipset and gfx card drowns out any other noise though

Jokester · 24 Mar 2006 at 18:19

Using a FSP Epsilon 700W, got a 120mm fan and plenty of juice for SLI/Crossfire.

Jokester

ajgoodfellow · 24 Mar 2006 at 19:00

I'd look at getting a Seasonic PSU as these are very quiet

w3bbo · 24 Mar 2006 at 21:07

I have both an Enermax liberty 620w and a hiper-R 580w. Both are very quiet. The hiper-r's 12v rails drooped under extreme load though (although still within atx spec) so I would go for the enermax liberty.

Also make sure it has 24 pin or 20+4 pin(both of the above have) as standard as some boards won't like a separate adapter.

janesssssy · 24 Mar 2006 at 21:17

I second the FSP epsilon, although im not using dual core or the 700watt. Just 600watt for me.

sorry usless post :rolleyes:

Squidge · 24 Mar 2006 at 23:11

Seasonic here.

Hiper is too noisy and has other problems.

Havana_UK · 24 Mar 2006 at 23:14

I too have both the Enermax Liberty 620W & the Hiper Type R 580W.

Both are very quiet, but the Enermax is the better of the two under load.

See sig for full spec.

Hav

PinkFloyd · 25 Mar 2006 at 00:29

See sig for the main spec, am using an Enermax Noisetaker 485w
Voltages are nice and stable, even when overclocked a lot (ie used to be stable when the chip would do 2.8GHz in win2000 - sadly in XP ---- erm no....)

Chronictank · 25 Mar 2006 at 02:15

Seasonic 600w silent for me

NickK · 25 Mar 2006 at 08:33

X2 4400 @ 2640
4x512 Mb @ 215
DFI nF4 SLI-DR
ATI X800XL @ ? but overclocked to an inch of it's life.
36Gb Raptor
OCZ PowerStream 520W

Hmm not tried my 550W TruePower on this rig as it went to power the RAID5 server (no PCI-E power as it was bought to power my Barton 2500!).

JustinB · 25 Mar 2006 at 11:01

Aerocool Turbine Power 550W silent with 1 120mm at about 1000rpm with no fans cant hear anything

Otacon · 25 Mar 2006 at 11:01

Shuttle SN25P and everything that lives inside it

Dead quiet.

Breeze · 25 Mar 2006 at 11:18

Is the PSU that comes with the Sonata II, true power 2 I think, up to the task?

ajgoodfellow · 25 Mar 2006 at 12:56

Depends on what you want to use it for

It's a good Antec PSU so it'll handle a fairly high drain system - dual core, X1900/7900 etc without any problems

Check out the PSU calculator here

volt9291 · 25 Mar 2006 at 13:53

I have an Akasa Ultra Quiet 460W

Loads of power, really is ultra quiet!

see sig for spec

smids · 25 Mar 2006 at 14:02

Hiper 480W Type R.

Breeze · 25 Mar 2006 at 15:10

ajgoodfellow said:
Depends on what you want to use it for

It's a good Antec PSU so it'll handle a fairly high drain system - dual core, X1900/7900 etc without any problems

Check out the PSU calculator here

Thanks for that.

Am either going for an Opti/3800x2, x1800xt/x1900xt as you mentioned.

Xionic · 26 Mar 2006 at 00:10

Hiper 580 Type-R. spec in sig